Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts. The Nineveh Treatise

There is to date no comprehensive treatment of eye disease texts from ancient Mesopotamia, and no English translation of this material is available. This volume is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian medicine from Nineveh dealing with diseases of the eye. This ancient work, lan...

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Autores principales: Panayotov, Strahil V., Geller, Markham J.
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description There is to date no comprehensive treatment of eye disease texts from ancient Mesopotamia, and no English translation of this material is available. This volume is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian medicine from Nineveh dealing with diseases of the eye. This ancient work, languishing in British Museum archives since the 19th century, is preserved on several large cuneiform manuscripts from the royal library of Ashurbanipal, from the 7th century BC. The longest surviving ancient work on diseased eyes, the text predates by several centuries corresponding Hippocratic treatises. The Nineveh series represents a systematic array of eye symptoms and therapies, also showing commonalities with Egyptian and Greco-Roman medicine. Since scholars of Near Eastern civilizations and ancient and general historians of medicine will need to be familiar with this material, the volume makes this aspect of Babylonian medicine fully accessible to both specialists and non-specialists, with all texts being fully translated into English.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-532092022-01-31T10:34:21Z Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts. The Nineveh Treatise Panayotov, Strahil V. Geller, Markham J. BS1-2970 Mesopotamian therapy Cuneiform medicine eye disease opthalmology There is to date no comprehensive treatment of eye disease texts from ancient Mesopotamia, and no English translation of this material is available. This volume is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian medicine from Nineveh dealing with diseases of the eye. This ancient work, languishing in British Museum archives since the 19th century, is preserved on several large cuneiform manuscripts from the royal library of Ashurbanipal, from the 7th century BC. The longest surviving ancient work on diseased eyes, the text predates by several centuries corresponding Hippocratic treatises. The Nineveh series represents a systematic array of eye symptoms and therapies, also showing commonalities with Egyptian and Greco-Roman medicine. Since scholars of Near Eastern civilizations and ancient and general historians of medicine will need to be familiar with this material, the volume makes this aspect of Babylonian medicine fully accessible to both specialists and non-specialists, with all texts being fully translated into English. 2021-02-11T19:18:59Z 2021-02-11T19:18:59Z 2020-11-12 19:29:15 2020 book 50347 9781501506550 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/53209 eng Other languages Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501506550 De Gruyter 10.1515/9783110674255 10.1515/9783110674255 af2fbfcc-ee87-43d8-a035-afb9d7eef6a5 9781501506550 350 open access
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